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Uzbekistan turns West as Russia crashes, Yulia Goryavina

Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov appears to have reacted to the US presidential elections by turning towards the West. He has agreed to release from prison some political prisoners who were sentenced during the bloody...

Tashkent dances west, Yulia Goryavina

Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov appears to have reacted to the US presidential elections by turning towards the West. He has agreed to release from prison some political prisoners who were sentenced during the bloody...

Uzbekistan: Evaluating Tashkent’s Reason for Leaving the Eurasian Economic Community

The EAEC members -- [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive Uzbekistan’s decision was communicated by a diplomatic note from the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the EAEC Secretariat in mid October, but the decision...

St.Petersburg hosts CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly

A delegation of Milli Majlis (Azerbaijani Parliament) participates at sessions of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, the EurAsEC Inter-Parliamentary Assembly and the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in St. Petersburg on November...

Uzbekistan quitting the EEC?

Johnny-come-lately turns Johnny-leave-early? Uzbekistan has decided to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Community. The EEC is an outgrowth of the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] that was founded in 2001 by those...

Uzbekistan: Moscow Giving Tashkent the Silent Treatment

BY SERGEI BLAGOV Russian leaders publicly have downplayed the significance of Uzbekistan’s withdrawal from the Eurasian Economic Community. Yet, experts in Moscow say that Tashkent’s action delivered a considerable blow to the...

An update on Moscow's position with regard to negotiations with Taliban

The latest reports from Afghanistan where the irreconcilable opposition reverted to violence and terror indicate that the country may find itself back in civil war. Russia's stand on the matter is analogous to the American and...

Why Uzbekistan suddenly decided to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Community

Uzbekistan is in the process of withdrawing from the Eurasian Economic Community it was a member to since 2006. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan submitted an official note to the EurAsEC Secretariat on the October...

Uzbekistan Suspends Eurasec Membership, Moscow Unruffled

UZBEKISTAN SUSPENDS EURASEC MEMBERSHIP, MOSCOW UNRUFFLED RIA Novosti 12:49 | 12/ 11/ 2008 MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Uzbekistan has officially announced it is temporarily withdrawing from the Eurasian Economic...

Uzbeks Withdraw From Regional Grouping

Nov 13, 2008

By leaving a regional economic grouping, Uzbekistan is showing its neighbours it would rather go it alone than make compromises in the name of greater integration, NBCentralAsia observers note. On November 12, the Russian news...

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